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Why I believe
Richard Dawson, 9 July 2015
As a child I was fortunate to grow up in a believing family and for many years I did not question the existence of God but I also simply assumed that somehow that belief made me a child of God. I never questioned whether how I lived matched the call of God on my life. And so I travelled into teenage years with a kind of naïve confidence that all was well with my life when, frankly, it wasn’t. To cut a rather long story short I was hard on other people. I had an eye for their inconsistencies and mistakes and I was never too shy to remind them, especially if they choose to point out some of my many mistakes. This came to a crisis in my teenage years when I realised I was not living as I should but found no power within myself to change. When I finally was led to a relationship with Jesus I found that power and I began to live in a manner which was easier both on others and myself. That power is still vital to me today for I find that even as a Minister my ability to get things completely wrong is still alive and well and I can easily live in unloving and unhelpful ways. Only the living Word of Christ which comes to me through the Church and my reading of the Bible keeps me living as I believe I should. And this is a power which extends beyond myself to those I care about and to the community within which I have been placed. It is a power which I believe has changed circumstances in my life miraculously and enabled me to find a peace which passes all understanding. I believe because I have found that God struggles with me in my present darkness to bring light to one who needs
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